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* LaserGuidedKarma: The school board unjustly fired Coach Taylor from his job, due to petty small town politics. It comes back to haunt them whey the new coach isn't up to the scratch and they decided to offer Taylor his old job back. Naturally he refuses and he and his family start a new life in Philadelphia
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* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: The series ends with the Taylors finally getting fed up with how the townspeople treat them like dirt despite how much they've given to help Dillion, and they leave the town to move Philadelphia.
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* AbusiveParents: Quite a few versions appear. Both of Matt's parents left him at certain points. His dad joined the army and left him to take care of his grandmother and his mother was practically a stranger to him for much of his life. Tim's Deadbeat father abandoned him and his brother. Lila's father cheated on her mother and squandered her college funds in shady business deals. J.D. [=McCoy=]'s takes the cake as he is emotionally and physically abusive to his son, pushing him relentlessly to succeed, controlling every aspect of his life from his relationships to how he plays football and beats him when he tries to stand up for himself.
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* AbusiveParents: Quite a few versions appear. Both of Matt's parents left him at certain points. His dad joined the army and left him to take care of his grandmother and his mother was practically a stranger to him for much of his life. Tim's Deadbeat father abandoned him and his brother. Lila's Lyla's father cheated on her mother and squandered her college funds in shady business deals. J.D. [=McCoy=]'s takes the cake as he is emotionally and physically abusive to his son, pushing him relentlessly to succeed, controlling every aspect of his life from his relationships to how he plays football and beats him when he tries to stand up for himself.
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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: When Tami decides to reallocate football booster money for a JumboTron to the school's facilities fund. She points out that the school is desperately in need of funds in order to provide the students with adequate educations and buying a JumboTron is frivolous. Buddy Garrity argues that the only reason the boosters donated their personal income to the fund in the first place was because they were told it would be used to buy a JumboTron, therefore they deserve to get it.
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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: When Tami decides to reallocate football booster money for a JumboTron to the school's facilities fund. She points out that the school is desperately in need of funds in order to provide the students with adequate educations and buying a JumboTron is frivolous. Buddy Garrity argues that the only reason the boosters donated their personal income to the fund in the first place was because they were told it would be used to buy a JumboTron, therefore JumboTron. Therefore, they deserve to get it.
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* CryIntoChest: Lila does this into Julie's chest at the end of the pilot episode, after Jason's injury.
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* CryIntoChest: Lila Lyla does this into Julie's chest at the end of the pilot episode, after Jason's injury.
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** Played for drama in Season 3, however, when Coach walks in on Julie and Matt having sex, and they, along with Tami, spends most of the rest of the episode dealing with that.
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** Played for drama in Season 3, however, when Coach walks in on Julie and Matt having sex, and they, along with Tami, spends spend most of the rest of the episode dealing with that.that.
** Also happens with Tim during his stay at the Taylors' house. After Julie gets drunk one night at a party, Tim takes her home, takes off her shoes, and puts Julie in her bed. Somehow, Julie ends up wrapping her arms around Tim's neck; Coach walks in and misinterprets this as Tim and Julie getting intimate. Coach then angrily kicks Tim out of the house.
** Also happens with Tim during his stay at the Taylors' house. After Julie gets drunk one night at a party, Tim takes her home, takes off her shoes, and puts Julie in her bed. Somehow, Julie ends up wrapping her arms around Tim's neck; Coach walks in and misinterprets this as Tim and Julie getting intimate. Coach then angrily kicks Tim out of the house.
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* SassyBlackWoman: Mama Williams if you disrespect her/are screwing her son in her house. Jess is this during the fourth and fifth season. Both a positive sassy characters and not caricatures.
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* SassyBlackWoman: Mama Williams if you disrespect her/are screwing her son in her house. Jess is this during the fourth and fifth season. Both a are portrayed as positive sassy characters and not caricatures.
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* UndisclosedFunds: First season: The lawsuit is seeking UndisclosedFunds; it gets a counteroffer of UndisclosedFunds; it's ultimately settled for UndisclosedFunds…
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* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Around Season Three the show de-aged Tim Riggins and Tyra Collette to keep them around. Especially obvious since (a) Matt Saracen, previously implied to be much younger, is suddenly the same age as Tim, and (b) Jason Street, Tim's best friend, ages normally. The problem was solved by transitioning to the next generation in Seasons Four and Five.
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* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Around Season Three the show de-aged Tim Riggins and Tyra Collette to keep them around. Especially obvious since (a) Matt Saracen, previously implied to be much younger, is suddenly the same age as Tim, and (b) Jason Street, Tim's best friend, ages normally. The problem was somewhat solved by transitioning to the next generation in Seasons Four and Five.Five, except that they also did the same thing to Julie and Landry so they could attend East Dillion for their senior year. Julie was explicitly said to be a sophomore in Season One and Landry was old enough to have his driver's license that same season. Both of them are straight-A students so they obviously didn't get held back.
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* BrokenPedestal: After Coach Taylor accepts a job at TMU, Matt, who had started to look up to him as a father figure, feels betrayed and still harbors some resentment over it even after he comes back to the Panthers.
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* SuperRinger: {{Deconstructed}} with Ray "Voodoo" Tatum. After the Panthers lose their first game without Street, Buddy Garrity recruits Voodoo, a Hurricane Katrina refugee who quarterbacked his hometown team to a state title, to pick up the slack at QB. However, even though he's highly skilled, he's also an arrogant jerk who feels no loyalty to the Panthers program and is just waiting until his school in Louisiana reopens. As a result, he refuses to listen to Coach Taylor and antagonizes the other players to the point where everyone would rather have Matt start even though he's not as talented. Additionally, it's discovered that his recruiting was illegal and so the Panthers are forced to forfeit the only game he plays in.
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In 1988, the Permian Panthers of Odessa, Texas had a football season. And it was good. Then a guy wrote [[FridayNightLights a book about it]] in 1990, and everyone could read about how it was good. Then in 2004, TheFilmOfTheBook BasedOnATrueStory, ''Film/FridayNightLights'', was brought to us by Peter Berg. And we could all ''see'' that it was good.
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In 1988, the Permian Panthers of Odessa, Texas had a football season. And it was good. Then a guy wrote [[FridayNightLights [[Literature/FridayNightLights a book about it]] in 1990, and everyone could read about how it was good. Then in 2004, TheFilmOfTheBook BasedOnATrueStory, ''Film/FridayNightLights'', was brought to us by Peter Berg. And we could all ''see'' that it was good.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: The plot machinations at the end of season 3 to send Taylor to the East Dillon Lions make very little sense. Apparently Dillon is suddenly twice as big as before, with hundreds and hundreds of people everyone just simply forgot about until now, who all live in a crime-ridden hellhole slum worthy of ''TheWire''. This is all so another school with a competing football team can be created. And then to get Taylor there, Joe [=McCoy=] is somehow able to get the very popular and successful coach fired in just a single meeting.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: The plot machinations at the end of season 3 to send Taylor to the East Dillon Lions make very little sense. Apparently Dillon is suddenly twice as big as before, with hundreds and hundreds of people everyone just simply forgot about until now, who all live in a crime-ridden hellhole slum worthy of ''TheWire''.''Series/TheWire''. This is all so another school with a competing football team can be created. And then to get Taylor there, Joe [=McCoy=] is somehow able to get the very popular and successful coach fired in just a single meeting.
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* DrillSergeantNasty: Billy Riggins shows shades of this as a football coach when he's put in charge of special teams. He directly insults them and then encourages them to picture the opposing players as him.
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* WrongSideOfTheTracks: East Dillon, although it is a more positive portrayal than most, as the people are shown to have a strong sense of community and civic pride once the Lions start gaining momentum.
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* FaceHeelTurn: JD between seasons 3 and 4.
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** HeelFaceTurn: In season 4, the Panthers were portrayed as JerkJocks and elitists to contrast with the ragtag and working class Lions. In season 5 , JD and his father disappeared and the Panthers became more sympathetic, so that the Lion's unsportsmanlike trouncing of them would come across as morally ambiguous rather than justified retribution
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** and to a lesser extent, Matt Saracen — originally QB 2, and many doubted his abilities as a leader upon promotion because of his sweet personality. However, he proved to be both a commanding leader of the team with skills improving through S1, and a good leader among friends
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*RousingSpeech: Before every game, RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic: Matt and sometimes afterwards, unless Coach is really pissed.Landry slur their words, stutter, repeat themselves and generally speak the way you'd expect awkward teenager to speak, however, almost everyone else speaks in clear, rehearsed sentences.
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** Jason Street — Talented and beloved player with a promising career [[spoiler:before he becomes paralysed]], dating possibly the only nice cheerleader in school, who is also his coach's daughter, and still rallies school spirit whilst becoming humble.
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** Jason Street — Talented and beloved player with a promising career [[spoiler:before he becomes paralysed]], dating possibly the only nice cheerleader in school, who is also his coach's daughter, and still rallies school spirit whilst becoming humble.
** and to a lesser extent, Matt Saracen — originally QB 2, and many doubted his abilities as a leader upon promotion because of his sweet personality. However, he proved to be both a commanding leader of the team with skills improving through S1, and a good leader among friends
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* AManIsNotAVirgin: There were exactly three known virgins on the show; season two was quick to make sure the two boys didn't qualify anymore.
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* CryIntoChest: Lila does this into Julie's chest at the end of the pilot episode, after Jason's injury.
* TheRival: Smash to Tim in the early episodes of Season 1, Voodoo to Matt and Smash in Season 1, and J.D. to Matt in Season 3. [[spoiler: The Lions to the Panthers in the last two seasons]]
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* TheRival: Smash to Tim in the early episodes of Season 1, Voodoo to Matt and Smash in Season 1, and J.D. to Matt in Season 3. [[spoiler: The Lions to the Panthers in the last two seasons]]
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* DysfunctionJunction: The Garritys, the Rigginses, the Saracens, the Howards, the Sproleses...
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the first few episodes, Smash and Tim have a mutual hatred for each other that is non-existent in the rest of the show.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the first few episodes, Smash and Tim have a mutual hatred for each other that is non-existent in the rest of the show.
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* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane People]]: The Taylors are the only ones who understand that the town's obsession with the team is ridiculous and detrimental to the everyone's lives.
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* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane People]]: The Taylors are the only ones who understand that the town's obsession with the team is ridiculous and detrimental to the everyone's lives.
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* CastingGag: Connie Britton played the same role in the movie as she does in the show.
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* DawsonCasting: with the exceptions of Julie, Landry, and Becky.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: A reason for most of the sensationalist story lines during the second season.
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* FridayNightDeathSlot: Survived surprisingly long there, appropriately for the title. It helped that NBC timed the episodes so as not to coincide with high school football season.
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* NamesTheSame:
** The team's called the Panthers and the school colors are blue and gold, just like ''Series/{{Degrassi}}''.
** Also, Berg's very short-lived show from 2000, "Wonderland," also featured a Lyla Garrity. [[WordOfGod He]] stated in an interview that both characters [[WriteWhoYouKnow were named after]] his first crush, [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend who was his dentist's daughter.]]
** In the NamesTheSame/RealVsFictional category, NBC Television Show Character Brian "Smash" Williams should not be confused with NBC News Anchor Brian Williams.
** The team's called the Panthers and the school colors are blue and gold, just like ''Series/{{Degrassi}}''.
** Also, Berg's very short-lived show from 2000, "Wonderland," also featured a Lyla Garrity. [[WordOfGod He]] stated in an interview that both characters [[WriteWhoYouKnow were named after]] his first crush, [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend who was his dentist's daughter.]]
** In the NamesTheSame/RealVsFictional category, NBC Television Show Character Brian "Smash" Williams should not be confused with NBC News Anchor Brian Williams.
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* TheDanza: Lamarcus Tinker as Dallas Tinker, Aaron Spivey-Sorrells as Coach Spivey, Timothy F. Crowley as Coach Crowley.
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: The Dillon Panthers' fight song sounds a lot like Notre Dame's fight song
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* WrittenInInfirmity: Landry's second-season leg injury that put a hold on his football-playing subplot; appropriately enough, Jesse Plemons had ''actually'' injured himself in a pick-up game of football.
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* ICouldaBeenAContender: Jason Street, in the [[SorryBillyButYouJustDontHaveLegs accident that starts off the series]]. [[spoiler:Eventually he manages to get his happy ending, though, happily married with a son and job as a sports agent.]]
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* ICouldaBeenAContender: Jason Street, in the [[SorryBillyButYouJustDontHaveLegs accident that starts off the series]].series. [[spoiler:Eventually he manages to get his happy ending, though, happily married with a son and job as a sports agent.]]
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* [[UngratefulBastard Ungrateful Bastards]]: The townspeople (under Joe [=McCoy's=] influence) pressure the school board into not renewing Coach Taylor's contract even though he lead the team to three straight playoff appearances and a state championship.
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* [[UngratefulBastard Ungrateful Bastards]]: {{Ungrateful Bastard}}s: The townspeople (under Joe [=McCoy's=] influence) pressure the school board into not renewing Coach Taylor's contract even though he lead the team to three straight playoff appearances and a state championship.
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* [[UngratefulBastard Ungrateful Bastards]]: The townspeople (under Joe [=McCoy's=] influence) pressure the school board into not renewing Coach Taylor's contract even though he lead the team to three straight playoff appearances and a state championship.
* [[UngratefulBastard Ungrateful Bastards]]: The townspeople (under Joe [=McCoy's=] influence) pressure the school board into not renewing Coach Taylor's contract even though he lead the team to three straight playoff appearances and a state championship.
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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: When Tami decides to reallocate football booster money for a JumboTron to the school's facilities fund. She points out that the school is desperately in need of funds in order to provide the students with adequate educations and buying a JumboTron is frivolous. Buddy Garrity argues that while that the only reason the boosters donated their personal income was because they were told it would be used to buy a JumboTron, therefore they deserve to get it.
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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: When Tami decides to reallocate football booster money for a JumboTron to the school's facilities fund. She points out that the school is desperately in need of funds in order to provide the students with adequate educations and buying a JumboTron is frivolous. Buddy Garrity argues that while that the only reason the boosters donated their personal income to the fund in the first place was because they were told it would be used to buy a JumboTron, therefore they deserve to get it.
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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: When Tami decides to reallocate football booster money for a JumboTron to the school's facilities fund. She points out that the school is desperately in need of funds in order to provide the students with adequate educations and buying a JumboTron is frivolous. Buddy Garrity argues that while that the only reason the boosters donated their personal income was because they were told it would be used to buy a JumboTron, therefore they deserve to get it.
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* ArtisticLicenseSports: Like anyone watching cares about the football, anyway.
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* GretzkyHasTheBall: Like anyone watching cares about the football, anyway.
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* {{Deconstruction}} Just like the book and the film, the series highlights several of the negative aspects of a small town's obsession with their high school football team.
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The series has completed its broadcast on both DirecTV and network television and been released on DVD. Starting with the third season, it was subject to an unusual licensing agreement where each season would be exclusive to DirecTV for the fall, and then aired on Creator/{{NBC}} the following spring.
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The series has completed its broadcast on both DirecTV DirectTV and network television and been released on DVD. Starting with the third season, it was subject to an unusual licensing agreement where each season would be exclusive to DirecTV DirectTV for the fall, and then aired on Creator/{{NBC}} the following spring.
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* EstrogenBrigadeBait: Tim Riggins. In Season One, Riggins sleeps with roughly half of the female characters over the course of the season.
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* MrFanservice: Tim Riggins. In Season One, Riggins sleeps with roughly half of the female characters over the course of the season.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Rather obviously, despite the inter-seasonal TimeSkip: Smash's girlfriend Waverly from Season One, Santiago (Buddy Garrity's ward, sorta; given his character's history, this has some UnfortunateImplications) from Season Two and Skeeter, Tim Riggins' dog from Season Four.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Rather obviously, despite the inter-seasonal TimeSkip: Smash's girlfriend Waverly from Season One, Santiago (Buddy Garrity's ward, sorta; given his character's history, this has some UnfortunateImplications) sorta) from Season Two and Skeeter, Tim Riggins' dog from Season Four.
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* BettyAndVeronica: Non-romantic example. Coach has to choose between Matt, who is a likable team player, and Voodoo, who is an asshole with a ton of talent, for his quarterback. His chooses Voodoo, but flips his opinion mid-game.
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* BettyAndVeronica: Non-romantic example. Coach has to choose between Matt, who is a likable team player, and Voodoo, who is an asshole with a ton of talent, for his quarterback. His He chooses Voodoo, but flips his opinion mid-game.
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